Originally Posted by CTD
Good point, Russ. Evodates are the only type of "Lab testing" that is never done "blind". The labs are always told what results are desired. The very set-up reeks of dishonesty.

So if I wanted a "lab" to measure a length of something and then told them roughly how long it was then that would be dishonest of me?

By your requirement for honesty, a scientist who wants the sizes of trees in a forest shouldn't tell the people doing the measuring what is to be measured because they would then have some idea what size it is.

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And the excuse isn't even close to plausible. "The equipment is so super-sensitive and expensive it might get broken if we didn't know what results to expect". Total bunk! Other labs have super sensitive equipment which is very expensive, yet they operate honestly in this respect.
Can you provide an example of a lab that performs measurements on something without having some idea of the scale of the measurement to be encountered?

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What's more, they're saying, in effect, that they're risking the equipment on a regular basis: a simple typo on a submission form, or misplacement of a decimal point would destroy it, right?
Who claims they are risking equipment?

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